2009 release. Late in 2008, the Finders Keepers Manchester vaults celebrated their 20th conquest. It was a dignified affair with a guest list consisting of mods, rockers, proggers, hip-hoppers, teenage vampires, Welsh dragons, fly killers, escaped convicts, Turkish protesters, studio chimpanzees, and Judo experts. But when the party ended, and the guests climbed back into the record sleeves, your humble Angleterrian subjects (Votel, Thomas and Shipton) set straight back to work, underground, digging away to find the next 20 nuggets in a deep grained ongoing quest. And they haven't stopped digging -- deeper and deeper without looking up until they realized that they were stuck in a 40 year-old chasm devoid of contemporary pop culture, making routine DJ trips into the wilderness, seldom distracted by rare shards of daylight. One such shard of light that regularly bounces around the B-Music mine shaft is beamed all the way from Los Angeles (via a global DJ schedule) and the label calls him The Gaslamp Killer -- while the FK bloodhound digs backwards, GLK sails forwards. Like many of us he was raised by a family of Japanese turntables, loops and edits, with the desire to take/break and remake without prejudice or regular food and water -- but as part of a culture that's frequently sinking under its own lethargic weight, The GLK is pushing the boat out and operating on full steam with a strong paddle and an open ear. With decades of music on his mind and youth on his side, The Gaslamp Killer's endless supply of elbow grease puts him in good company. Flying Lotus, Cherrystones, Prefuse 73, Cut Chemist, Andy Votel, The Heliocentrics, and DJ Nobody, are all fellow crew members and collaborators and his DJ mixes and sonic gifts for Mary Anne Hobbs, Hit + Run, Obey, Stussy & Dublab.com prove why labels like Stones Throw and Warp are salivating over drops of this man's blood. Finders Keepers didn't need to send GLK a bumper package of their entire discography, he'd already bought it and made continuous cross-continental phone calls to the UK to let us know how fresh he thought they sounded. We think that even though most FK records are almost 40 years old, they sound more forward-thinking than most of the music that'll be made next year and in the context of Will's All Killer Finders Keepers mixtape, we think you'll agree. GLK might be the youngest artist in the FK family, but he's certainly not the greenest and in a world where if we do happen to converse with someone without having to consult a travelers phrase book, its very unlikely that they'll be under the age of 60, then he's certainly the most gregarious sonic interpreter for the B-Music outernational modus operandi. Scrambled, sampled, angle-poised and untangled, All Killer hears GLK at his best -- given envious carte blanche on the label's vast musical palette, featuring tracks that have previously been savored and championed by the likes of Madlib, Oh-No, Arctic Monkeys, Percee P, Erykah Badu, Jarvis Cocker, Koushek, Future Sound Of London and Morrissey, amongst others.

"Gaslamp Killer is one of our favorite DJs and a big supporter of the Heliocentrics, recently saying that Heliocentrics producer and drummer Malcolm Catto 'is the reason I got into all of this shit.' That inspiration comes through in this mix of GLK re-edits of some of the best tracks from their new album 13 Degrees of Reality and the series of EPs that Now-Again will launch in 2014. He also mixes in some music from 60s ensembles that influenced the band."

"Breakthrough is the debut full-length album from the Gaslamp Killer, a manic and mystic trip through the mind of a madman. Resident DJ and co-founder of the mythic Low End Theory club night in Los Angeles, the Gaslamp Killer is known across the globe for his impeccable turntable skills and high-energy performances. He delivers the same fire to Breakthrough, a project pulled from within his soul that is his strongest musical statement yet."